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Two years after Owliness, Beequeen is back with a new, easily available full-length.
Another Kid606 project. Yeah ! Well, not really yeah ! The last few 606 music I heard was rather disappointing. But anyway, Flössin is centred on Christopher Willits, and that is good news.
Reuber is back with his third solo album, a psychedelic collage fest that will put you in a very good mood.
The return of what I always described as the 'Watchtower of doom' because of the highpitched vocals and complex and technical songstructures shows that those two elements have been mellowed down a bit in the last 10 years of inactivity.
Unsung heroes. Forgotten ones. Out of favours pioneers. Music history is full of people who for some reason failed to be remembered. Thanks the Lord, there are people and labels who dedicate themselves to bring back to life distant memories. Acute records is one of those, and a few month after Glenn Branca’s Lesson n°1, they allowed me to discover a band that I had never heard of: The Prefects.
In the dark days before Christmas Duncan Patterson's (ex-Anathema, Antimatter) Strangelight-label releases a limited edition of 1,000 copies of Anathema-guitarist Danny Cavanagh's tribute to singer-songwriter Nick Drake. The timing is perfect.
The promise made by all-female fourtet Electrelane with their 2001 debut album Rock It to the Moon landed them a record deal with indie label Too Pure. This allowed them to record their sophomore album The Power Out under the guidance of sound engineering wizard Steve Albini.
Blood Box’s second release conjures up truly breathtaking imagery and atmosphere. Blood Box is the solo project of Michael JV Hensley, one half of the well respected dark ambient band Yen Pox.
Hot on the heels of the odds and sods e.p. called Here Comes that Weird Chill, Mark Lanegan finally "hits the city" with his latest full length gem entitled Bubblegum.
The 20th century composer Edgard Varèse stated he liked brass because they are ‘full of sun’. Jóhannsson’s followup to his rather sad solo-debut Englabörn proves that point.
One of the good surprises of 2003 came from 31knots and their interesting (it had been such a long wait...) math-rock. They’re back with a 5 track ep on Luxemburg’s Own Records.
It's safe to say that Brazzaville's first three albums went by virtually unnoticed by a large group of potential fans. Trey Spruance (Secret Chiefs 3, Asva) decided to help spread the word by releasing this compilation on his Mimicry-label.
A mere few weeks after Water Mirror, and we’re already treated to another Fourcolor album. The man never stops…
Guitarist Timothy Young won my heart when I saw him perform with Wayne Horvitz' Zony Mash ensemble. I knew the CD's but this band truly came to life in the live-situation, something I can give Timothy a large part of the credit for because his performance was much wilder than the recorded versions seemed.
The man/machine concept seems a neverending source of inspiration for new metalbands. Particularly because homerecording has spread and the use of drumcomputers and synthesizers is available to everyone with a PC. Not that this is a homerecording, this is recorded in a real studio and it sounds professional indeed.
It’s already the fourth releases for Andreas Tilliander under the Mokira alias. And his 17th, all projects combined. I’m not even taking his various works as producer into account. Impressive record for the Swede, especially given the general quality of his music.
Biosphere. One of the biggest names in the music we call ambient. Albums which we will still enjoy after 50 years. Timeless and abstract. Mysterious and distant. Cold, as well as warm. Not always easy, but always a relief to listen to. That is Biosphere. And there’s a new album out…
"OK, here’s your motivation: you’re lost and angry in the woods and there’s no one here to help you". Lines taken from the Blair Witch project, but I think they sum up perfectly the feeling of the title track from Wolf Eyes' Dead Hills ep.
F.S. Blumm is one of the most prolific and interesting musicians of the German new music scene. On Sesamsamen, he has fun with some of his friends. The result is interesting, but not entirely captivating.
Since Nasum was created in 1992 the band has lifted the grindcore genre to a higher level, and proved that this type of music knows no limitations whatsoever. Last week they toured through Holland for the first time in four years to promote the new album Shift; a good reason for yours truly to go completely crazy at their show.
The young Norwegian folk-rockers Gåte should be known by now by readers of m[m]. The quintet has just released their second full-length album which entered the Norwegian charts at the #3 position and they deserved it!
Keiichi Sugimoto’s solo project Fourcolor gets at long last a wide distribution with this release on Apestaartje.
The DJ-Kicks formula from the !K7 label is not an unfamiliar phenomenon anymore. Not surprisingly, when you notice that some of the best musicians have already contributed to these series. But Erlend Øye? Not that he’s a bad musician, on the contrary, but as a DJ? Is !K7 suddenly changing a winning concept?
Sun lights down on the fences begins like many albums of today’s experimental music: glitches, noises, saxophone, a little bit of guitar, nothing really engaging. Mind you, it ain’t bad. It’s nothing special. Then comes the second track. All of sudden, there is light at the end of the tunnel. This is one gem of an album.